Category archives: GIS

A new version of the Africa Tree Finder is on the Google Play store with lots of improvements and new functionality. Have a look here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.icraf.gsl.africatreefinder&hl=en

A community best understands its resources, the specific locations and
seasonal variations of grazing resources. It is with this
knowledge that the GeoScience Lab in collaboration with International
Union for Conservation of Nature
(IUCN), planned and executed a community-based resource mapping
exercise for Hurri hills and Shurr landscapes in Marsabit County.
Historically, both landscapes were ...

ICRAF Geoscience Lab in partnership with IUCN with funding by DFID have developed a semi offline android [app](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.icraf.gsl.iucn.treespecieslocator "Africa Tree Finder"), that can be used by extension officers, foresters, ecologist and farmers to help identify suitable tree species for their surrounding. The ...

During the "Kenya Landuse Change" project conducted by the Climate Change Unit at ICRAF, several thousand aerial images were collected
from surveys done in 1983 and 2012, respectively. During the last three months, the ICRAF GeoScience Lab has georeferenced this image archive to an accuracy of ~5m or better, with the help of six interns ...

The Landscapes Portal
is growing rapidly. Into our fourth month, the Landscapes Portal has around five hundred unique data sets with complete meta-data and more than two hundred registered users that are uploading and sharing spatial data and maps. We saw a lot of interest in the last two months with more than four thousand ...